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While the White House gossip will surely interest some people, the real damage to this administration comes from its disaster area of an economic policy. And amazingly, the president’s response has been to add a dose of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale to his (latest) “jobs” agenda.

Republicans and independents are already fed up with President Obama. It will be interesting to see what impact this book, combined with increasing criticism from people like James Carville, will have within the Democratic Party.

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